London Builds for 2012

Earthworks
BY 2012, the 11-mile blue fence now encircling the Olympic Park will be home to four sporting arenas, an Olympic village and a vast media center. When the games are over, venues will be repurposed for community and residential needs and much of the land sold for housing and business development

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